Rachel Ducker

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With an incredibly visual, active mind Rachel has an insatiable desire to create and make. Well practiced in life drawing and with an appreciation of the human form and the emotional dynamics of human nature, combined with being originally trained as a jeweller, lead her to experiment with wire as a medium for sculpting the human form, capturing something ephemeral, either emotive or active. Her pieces are untitled due to her belief that everyone sees something different in the sculptures and her lack of suggestion leads them to live that moment she portrays in their own particular way, therefore expanding the piece of work further with every viewer. The translucency and form of her work allows rather dramatic shadows to be cast and with the right lighting, can show the three dimensional form on a two dimensional level creating an effect resembling a pencil sketch on the wall.

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Wall Mounted Figure

100 × 40 × 60 cm

£2,400.00

Standing

165 × 45 × 45 cm

£5,500.00

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Exhibitions

2014 Gallery R, Sweden Henley Arts Trail, UK Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, UK OAS, Radley College, Oxford, UK Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK Artist in Residence, Summer Fields School, Oxford, UK OSG, North Wall Gallery, Oxford, UK 2013 Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxfordshire, UK Hampton Court Flower Show, London, UK Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK Gallery Up Stairs, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, UK Junction Gallery, Woodstock, UK St Peters College, Oxford, UK Oxfordshire Artweeks, UK Jam Factory, Oxford, UK In House Gallery, Mere, UK Balon Rouge, Thame, UK Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset, UK The Gallery at Ice, Windsor, UK* Oxford Sculpture Society, North Wall, Oxford. UK 2012 'Freeze' exhibition at the O3 Gallery Oxford with printmaker Rachel Owen. The Savoy Hotel London with painter Joanna May Burford Garden Company Christmas Show. The Framers Gallery, London, UK Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxfordshire. UK. Galerie Francois Giraudeau, Ile de Re, La Rochelle, France* Henley Festival, UK Oxfordshire Artweeks, UK Kingham Lodge, Group sculpture show. Kingham, UK Brewery Arts, Cirencester, UK * 'Physicality' Show. UK Junction Gallery, Woodstock, UK* The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, UK* 2011 AAF, London. UK. Oxfordshire Artweeks. The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester. UK* 2010 Joanna May Gallery, Marlborough, UK* O3 Gallery, Oxford, UK (Metamorphosis Show) Henley Festival, Henley-on-Thames, UK Art for Youth, Oxford, UK Woodstock Arts Festival, UK AAF, London,UK Obsidian Art, Bucks, UK* Cuadros Gallery, Nottingham, UK* 2009 Liscious Interiors/Gallery, Oxford, UK Public Art commission, London, UK Joanna Jones Gallery, Bottesford, UK Azure Gallery, Sidmouth, UK* Artist in residence, Wheatley Park Art school, UK 2008 The White Gallery, Cheshire, UK* Oxford Open, MAO, Oxford, UK O3 Gallery, Oxford, UK Gallery Top, Derbyshire, UK The Studio Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, UK* 2007 Morgan Lovell, Soho, London, UK Harding House Gallery, Lincoln, UK* The Blue Door Gallery, London, UK The Portmellon Gallery, Cornwall, UK Opera Holland Park, London, UK Oxford Artweeks, Oxford, UK Oxford Art Society Members Exhibition, Oxford, UK Gallery 49, Kent, UK Ferrers Gallery, Ashby de la Zouch, UK 2006 Member of OAS (Oxford Art Society, Est. 1891) The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, Leeds, UK Apple Gallery, Surrey, UK The D'art Gallery, Dartmouth, UK * Agora Gallery, Soho and Chelsea, New York, USA Old Chapel Gallery, Leominster, UK * Oxford Artweeks, Oxford, UK Morgan-Boyce Contemporary Fine Art, Marlborough, UK Fisherton Mill Galleries, Salisbury, UK * Modern Artist Gallery, Berkshire, UK * 2005 EWACC Group exhibition, Light Gallery, London UK Cirencester Brewery Arts, Glos, UK* Islington Art and Design Fair, London, UK Marmalade Gallery, Oxford, UK Paddon and Paddon, Eastbourne, UK Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK Dorchester-on-Thames, Festival, Oxfordshire, UK Artifex, Mitchell Centre for Art and Craft, Birmingham, UK * Ubergallery, Melbourne, Australia Opera Holland Park, London, UK Sculptastic Gallery, London, UK Liscious Interiors, Oxford, UK Oxford Artweeks, Oxford, UK Urban Gardens 2005, Olympia, London, UK Gallery Nomansland, Scotland, UK 2004 Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK The Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK Art in Action Gallery, Waterperry, UK Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK Twist Art & Design launch exhibition, London, UK Oxford Artweeks, Oxford. UK. 2003 Lee Chapman Gallery, Lake District, UK* European Makers Gallery, Amsterdam. The Netherlands* Blue Wing Gallery, Richmond, London. UK. The Contemporary Craft Movement, Hampstead, London UK Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK. Rivers Gallery, Glos. UK Larks Gallery, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK* Oxford Artweeks, Oxford, UK. 2002 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London UK The Contemporary Craft Movement, Hampstead, London UK Magic Fingers Gallery, Somerset UK* Woodstock Arts Ltd. Gallery, Oxon UK The Craft Movement, Bowood House, Calne UK Oxford Art Weeks, Oxford UK Pebbles Yard Gallery, Pembrokeshire UK* The Craft Movement, Chelsea, London, UK 2001 Graves Gallery, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK Affordable Arts Fair, Battersea, London, UK Bell Fine Art Gallery, Winchester, UK Art In Action Gallery, Waterperry, UK* Oxford Art Weeks, Oxford, UK. This included a window display in Bordersbookshop, city center Oxford 2000 Twist Art & Design, 20th Century Theatre, London The Chalk House, St Ives, Cornwall, UK Liscious Interiors, Oxford, UK We Three Kings Contemporary Arts, Witney, UK Veranda Gallery, Oxford, UK* Taurus Gallery, Oxford, UK Oxford Art Weeks, UK 1996-1999 Jericho Café, Oxford, UK Freud Art Café, Oxford, UK Café Something, Oxford, UK Dust Bar, London, UK.